Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winding driveway, through grounds bursting with redbud and dogwood, to the great white Shenandoah Valley mansion of Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, drove some distinguished visitors, among them Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Democratic Senators Lyndon Johnson and Walter George, and Republican Senator Eugene Millikin. They met in the second-floor room that Byrd uses as his home office. From the meeting came a decision to strive for a compromise that might save President Eisenhower's liberalized foreign-trade bill-still under discussion in Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee-from being ruined by crippling amendments...
...most serious reaction, from the Democratic leadership's standpoint, came from Virginia's veteran (22 years) U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, who was not named by Mitchell. Said Byrd: "A delegate to the national convention owes his allegiance to his state . . . Mitchell's position is that a delegate must surrender his convictions as the representative of his party in the state if his convictions are trodden underfoot by a majority of the national convention. This, in spite of the fact that the convictions of those he used to illustrate his position were well known to the Democrats...
Government critics have requested an item veto for some hundred years, but Congress has always rejected the idea, fearing permanent loss of its purse power to the President. The Byrd bill, however, provides for flexible but strong control of the President, since the Constitution would be amended only to enable Congress to confer the item veto power by statute. If the President got out of hand, Congress could pass a new law to meet the situation; if the legislature did not choose to withdraw the power completely, it could restrict the executive merely by redefining the scope of the words...
...President would veto rediculous measures favoring exclusively sectional interests. Representatives, however, win elections on actual appropriations, not on futile attempts registered in the Record. Responsibility would ultimately rest with Congress, since any veto would have to be over-ridden by a two-thirds majority, and according to the Byrd bill, vetoed items would be reconsidered separately...
...principle of the item veto has already been accepted as constitutionally sound, for it is being used successfully in Puerto Rico and in thirty-six states. The support of such widely diverging political figures as Senator Byrd, William Douglas, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Herbert Hoover testifies to the need for a streamlined system...